Stephan A. Schwartz

Government & Military Advisory Work

Stephan Schwartz entered public service in 1971, when he began writing speeches for President Richard Nixon, Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, and U.S. Navy commanders. His government credentials matured into a formal role as Special Assistant for Research and Analysis to the Chief of Naval Operations, and consultant to the Oceanographer of the Navy. These positions gave him unusual access to military leadership while simultaneously pursuing unconventional consciousness research—a rare dual track that positioned him at the intersection of institutional credibility and fringe inquiry.

Remote Viewing & Consciousness Research

Schwartz is a core member of the small group that founded modern remote viewing research during the Cold War. His trajectory intersected with the Stanford Research Institute program in the mid-1970s, following publication of a landmark 1974 paper by Russell Targ and Hal Puthoff on systematic RV experiments. Rather than focus purely on military applications (the domain of SRI's government contracts), Schwartz chose archaeology as a testing ground—blind targets, documented records, and falsifiable predictions made RV claims susceptible to verification.

Alexandria Project & Archaeological Discoveries

Schwartz's flagship research initiative, the Alexandria Project, deployed fifteen remote viewers (both experienced and novice) to locate the lost tomb of Alexander the Great and remains of the Library of Alexandria. His team used remote viewing to identify sites before excavation, producing discoveries that gained recognition in academic archaeology journals: Cleopatra's Palace, Marc Antony's Timonium, fragments of the Lighthouse of Pharos, and multiple sunken vessels along the California coast and in the Bahamas. These successes, published in peer-reviewed literature, established credibility for applied RV in a field traditionally skeptical of parapsychology.

Institutional Positions & Impact

Schwartz has held Distinguished Consulting Faculty status at Saybrook University, Fellowship at the William James Center for Consciousness Studies (Sofia University), Research Associate positions with the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, and Senior Fellow roles at the Samueli Institute. He founded and directed the Mobius Laboratory, an independent research organization focused on nonlocal consciousness phenomena. These appointments—while outside traditional academic hierarchies—provided institutional infrastructure for consciousness research when mainstream universities were reluctant to host such work.

Publications & Intellectual Contributions

He authored over 130 peer-reviewed technical papers and edited the daily publication Schwartzreport.net (a consciousness and alternative science digest). His books—The Secret Vaults of Time (archaeology & RV), The Alexandria Project, Mind Rover, Opening to the Infinite, The 8 Laws of Change, and the science-fiction novel Awakening—developed theoretical frameworks for nonlocal consciousness and its implications for human civilization. His work bridged hard science (experimental protocols, statistical analysis) and speculative inquiry, appealing to both academic skeptics seeking methodological rigor and believers seeking legitimacy.

Nonlocal Consciousness & UAP Connection

Schwartz's primary focus—nonlocal perception (consciousness independent of space and time)—sits at the conceptual core of modern UAP discourse. His 40-year track record studying consciousness as a phenomenon not reducible to neurobiology parallels arguments made by contemporary UAP researchers (e.g., Jacques Vallée, James Carrion) that the phenomenon may reflect intelligence operating via nonlocal rather than technological mechanisms. His Deep Quest submarine experiment, conducted with Stanford Research Institute collaborators, tested whether nonlocal perception operated via electromagnetic fields—concluding it did not, suggesting an entirely separate physical principle. This framework offers a bridge between parapsychology and UAP studies, positioning both as evidence for non-local intelligence.